The image maps the sudden loss of photons (particles of light). The EHT saw the black hole in the center of galaxy M87 while the telescope was examining the event horizon or the area past which nothing can escape from a black hole. In 2019 the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration released the first image ever recorded of a black hole. (Image credit: EHT Collaboration) (opens in new tab) The Event Horizon Telescope, a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration, captured this image of the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy M87 and its shadow. Related: How many black holes are there in the universe? Black hole images Not only does the black hole candidate reside in the constellation Monoceros ("the unicorn"), its incredibly low mass - about three times that of the sun - makes it nearly one of a kind. The closest black hole to Earth is dubbed " The Unicorn" and is situated approximately 1,500 light-years away. Though detecting black holes is a difficult task and estimates from NASA (opens in new tab) suggest there could be as many as 10 million to a billion stellar black holes in the Milky Way. Since the Milky Way contains over 100 billion stats, our home galaxy must harbor some 100 million black holes. (Image credit: NASA/UMass/D.Wang et al., IR: NASA/STScI) (opens in new tab)Īccording to the Space Telescope Science Institute (opens in new tab) (STScI) approximately one out of every thousand stars is massive enough to become a black hole.
At the center of the Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*).
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